Magazine-loader



l C. A. NELSON.

MAGAZINE LOADER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 3,1918.

1,397,538. Patented Nov: 22, 1921.

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ATTORNEY CHARLES A. NELSON, or 'uTIoA, unwyoax Assieivonimo haw AGE.

i United States citizen, residing; in Utica, and which-W111=- gfi d it 'New York, have inventedthe following-deskilledin the-mfg"Ihi 'in tib i y pedit 'theproces's of transferring cartridges. the (3 lI L;:,I 1I1el"3 .fgp h -u irt raidg ib s h from-a standardclip into' th-e feed chute or sa1d c asingbeingafo med w m 'n pii'cation-filed December s;i1'9'i'e -sa1t1; .126 ,1 I

g be'd'escrib'edl into the"cartridge spaeesioffl BllTkIlOWIl that I, CHA LnsA; 'ELsoN, r0tary'1n1ach1ne--gun magazine shown a'at w lied sCribedImProVements-in Magazlne-Loaders." to the chute-"ofs'ucha load-er by a The lmprovement provides meanstoT'ex smallca'sing 7 to t11at 1side"yvhih'-bon ai;

' cartridgechamber of" a magazine loader ears bjy which it embraces thejedg f such as is used for loadingthe magazines chuteandby which .it issecured theretoinof machine guns, or directly into the magaany suitable manner; Two small. screws 8 zine of that or any other class ofj fire-arm. are used for this purpose in theflcaseillu' Rifle cartridges are most efficiently handled trated but, the 'manners of attaching: or '6 a 1n groups or rows of five or more held by mountingthe casing on the chute, is-fma j;

their bases ina clip of well-known form'by festly not of consequenceyit can-he integral "j H means ofwhich they-are kept in orderly ar-v with the chut'eif preferred or-iiicorporated" i i 7 'ing the row endwise V out of engagement pressed upwardlyby a'springilOtoward the lated with the'sai d clip :to receive the same chute but not into contact 1 with them i,"

rangement for'introdu'ction into theirplace thereinjin various mechanically different:

, ofuse, being removed from'the clip by pushmanners. The casing contains a plunger 9. .7

therewith. This invention consists in a conreceiving opening of the chute andjfcarrystruction of feed chute or analogous rear mg; a lateral fingerfll which Pr0jefCt$tQ-' L tridge-receiving chamber specially corre; ward the 'pathof the cartridges.-insidejjthe.

with the cartridges in it and automatically -XVhei-ethe casing ismounted 'as'an attacheject it clear of the chutewhen the cartridges 11161117 outside. the chute asin the case illushave been transferred. The; invention s; trated, the. finger lOyextends-through a. slot* illustrated in the form .a-t present preferred 12cut in the end wall of the chute; a I

l 1n the accompanying drawings, but with c When the rowfofclipheld cartridges is 0 2 1 j trated.

out limitation to the particular detail illusplacecl'in p'osi tion to enter the chute the g i holding clip will enter partway into the I igure 1 is an elevation ofthe fee'd chutechute entrance 'until"it-seat sfbyits two lat- "of a loader used for loading the rotary .erallugs 13in two 11 tche's, 14L cut for the magazine of the well-known Lewis machine purposein the. upper end of the-"chute an i 7 gun andhavingthis invention applied; 1 111 such entering inovement theklower en- Fig. 2 is a larger view 'of the'chute', partly "of the clip will engage and depressthe finge ibroken' away and showingfthe ejector. cas 11 against thepre's'sureo fthesprin'g asJin V. ing in section and the plunger-e ector theredica'ted in'Fig. 2. 1 It will be observed tha 7 of depressed by'a cartridge clip; the notches'and spring finger together con Q 1 "Fig. 3 illustrates the same parts in differ-f; stitute means fordeterrhiniiigthe position entfposition and the clip'ejected and of the clipinthe chute and the extent.o its Fig is atop .planfof Fig.3. entrance'itherein, the principalfunction 01" The illustrated loading machine is; the thenotchesbeingto guide the c'lipinto'ena same as thatvshown inmy (Bo-pending appli gagernent with the finger and in-the per- 95 cation Serial No. 115,128, filed'August 16, iformance ofthisr function-the.notches'may*' ,7 chute 1-mounted on a base 4 and providing chute as a whole} The extent ofentering r 1916, and consistsbriefiy .ofaa cartridge be assisted more orless byth'e shape-of the" 'i "I 7 two opposing channels 2 andv3, the former .n ovementmay be determined either'by the '.l for receiving the points of the cartridges and, notches-or by the finger. I p -1.0 the latter the basesj'thereof Cartridges in- 1 now theicartridges be forced'ldowin f. troduced into the upper 'endof this-chute wardly or toward the chute with sufiici'ent descend. therein under the-control of'alatch 1 force to, overcome- .the iriction exerted on. 5 i i a 5 and other members not necessary here to them-bythe clip 'spring, they willb f cedi ji nf."- fl out of the cli'p and will enter the 'chute in the same orderly arrangement as they .were

held in ftheclip and when the last cartridge has left the clip the latter-will be relieved of downward pressure and the'spring 1O acting thereon will snap the finger upwardly and eject the clip clear of the chute as indicated matically' by clip which method is preferred to other in Fig. 3. The ejector thus functions auto;

the release of pressure on the means'by which the ejector might also be 1 quire to one after the other in the loader'with great I be handled and takes care ofitself as above explained, j A very material saving in ti'me'is thus e'fiected over previous metl1-. V v

ods of itran ferrlng cartridges from clips 1 using-only one handforthe opera need be, since the cliprcdoes'not re-t into the vchambers in which they are to be used.- I

Claimsz T w I 1'. In cartridge transferring'mechanism, the combination of a chamber formedto receive cartridges from cartridge jclip, and a member spring-pressed toward the receiving opening of the chambenadapted to be depressed by engagement with-the clip and rendered active to eject theclip by the' disengagement of the lastcartridge therewith.

2. In. a magazine loading machine for loading separate magazines a cartridge chute formed at its entrance end-to receive 35 a cartridge clip and provided with an automati'cally operating ejector for the empty clip.

In testimony whereof, lhaye signed specification. .w j A, p I

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